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Forest Change and Human Populations in New England 1600-2015
David
Foster
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-3762
Ernest
Gould
Brian
Hall
2023
English
As part of retrospective studies of land-use across New England, information was compiled on forest cover and human population for the New England states. The states share a common history of deforestation for agriculture followed by farm abandonment and natural reforestation with the exception of northern Maine, which was never densely settled and largely remained forested. The extent to which these secondary forests differ in structure and function from permanently wooded areas or the forests of the pre-settlement period forms a major research emphasis of Harvard Forest studies.
humans
land use
populations
vegetation dynamics
LTER controlled vocabulary
disturbance
human-environment
land use
LTER core area
Harvard Forest
HFR
LTER
USA
HFR default
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https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf013
New England. Coordinates based on WGS84 datum.
-74.3
-66.9
+47.5
+40.5
0
1900
meter
1600
2015
complete
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Data were compiled by E. Gould, D.R. Foster, and Brian Hall. Population data are from the U.S. Census; forest cover data are from Baldwin (1942), and United States Forest Service reports. See Detailed Metadata section below for specific forest acreage sources
Harvard Forest researchers have used the following total acres for the region in the Wildlands and Woodlands reports: CT - 3,181,474; MA - 5,179,328; ME - 20,845,028; NH - 5,941,024; RI - 690,129; VT - 6,154,039; New England - 41,991,023
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The Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program examines ecological dynamics in the New England region resulting from natural disturbances, environmental change, and human impacts.
National Science Foundation LTER grants: DEB-8811764, DEB-9411975, DEB-0080592, DEB-0620443, DEB-1237491, DEB-1832210.
hf013-01-forest-acres.csv
forest area
hf013-01-forest-acres.csv
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https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p01/hf013/hf013-01-forest-acres.csv
year
year
YYYY
source
source
1
Baldwin, H. I. 1942. Forestry in New England. National Resources Planning Board Publication 70, Boston, Massachusetts
2
U.S. Forest Service Reappraisal Project figures
3
USFS. 1958. Timber resources for America’s future. USFS USDA Forest Resource Report no. 14
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USFS. 1965. Timber trends in the United States. USFS USDA Forest Resource Report No. 17
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USFS. 1973. The outlook for timber in the United States. USFS USDA Forest Resource Report No. 20
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USFS. 1990. New England’s forests. USFS USDA Northeastern Forest Experiment Station NE-INF-91-90
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USFS Northeastern Research Station FIA Website, March 2003. www.fs.fed.us/ne/fia/states.main.html. Date listed as 1998; actual FIA inventory for each state: CT, 1998; MA, 1998; ME, 1995; NH, 1997; RI, 1998; VT, 1997
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USFS Northern Research Station FIA Website, November 2008. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/
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USFS Northern Research Station FIA Website, August 2015. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/
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USFS Northern Research Station FIA Website, July 2016. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/fia/
ct
forest area in acres for Connecticut
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
ma
forest area in acres for Massachusetts
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
me
forest area in acres for Maine
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
nh
forest area in acres for New Hampshire
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
ri
forest area in acres for Rhode Island
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
vt
forest area in acres for Vermont
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
ne
forest area in acres for New England
acre
1
whole
NA
missing value
note
notes on data sources for specific years
hurricane name assigned by the US National Hurricane Center or World Meteorological Organization (1950-1997)
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hf013-02-population.csv
human population
hf013-02-population.csv
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https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p01/hf013/hf013-02-population.csv
year
year
Every 10 years for 1770-2000 and every 20 years for 1630-1750
YYYY
ct
human population in Connecticut
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
ma
human population in Massachusetts
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
me
human population in Maine
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
nh
human population in New Hampshire
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
ri
human population in Rhode Island
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
vt
human population in Vermont
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
32
hf013-03-new-england-population.csv
human population in New England
hf013-03-new-england-population.csv
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f8cd2f28bc58d0f13784f39574e67398
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column
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https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/data/p01/hf013/hf013-03-new-england-population.csv
year
year of the data
YYYY
new.eng.pop
human population in New England
number
1
natural
NA
missing value
4
conservation
historical
regional
long-term measurement
historical
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https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf044
https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/exist/apps/datasets/showData.html?id=hf087